On 10/10/2014 9:28 AM, Yota wrote:
Once again, I am thoroughly confused as to why the space is put before the * in
a language where the * is associated with the type, and not the identifier.
In C, you can declare multiple variables like this:
T *p, *q;
both are pointer to T. This is why conventionally the * gets put next to the
symbol name. Such split up declarations aren't allowed in D, so conventionally
the * gets put next to the type, as in:
T* p, q;
At which point I ask, why word it such that 'const' affects the symbol v, and
not the type T*? And why does the former syntax even exist if it is more proper
to use the latter?
const as storage class is useful for doing things like putting data into a read
only segment.
The const(T) type constructor syntax is to emphasize that const in D is
transitive, i.e. it affects everything inside the ( ). This is not true of const
in C++, which when used as a type constructor is left-associative, unless it is
on the left when it becomes right-associative, which I find terribly confusing.
